allonlinenovel Chapter 317 Roar, the first life of being a sister to Muchen
Chapter 317 Roar, the first life of being a sister to Muchen
Before leaving, the old patriarch handed Miss Lin a small silver bottle and said in stiff Chinese, "Ms. Han, this bottle... once contained something more poisonous than a Gu.
Normally, don't open it. Find a rope and hang it on your body. Then you won't have to worry about anyone putting a curse on you.
Assistant Lin quickly took a few more gold bars and stuffed them into the old man's cloth bag. However, the old patriarch threw them out: "I gave you enough before. The mountain god will not accept any more money to buy your life."
The Lin family expressed their gratitude and asked Assistant Lin to send the old patriarch back. They also gave Assistant Lin permission to buy all the forests where the old patriarch and his family lived, and let their family members live there free of charge. No one would ever disturb them.
The reason the old patriarch was invited out this time was because someone wanted to rent out their mountain for tourism. The Black Miao people had lived in this mountain for generations, rarely interacting with outsiders.
Not to mention having Wallet Mountain, but outsiders are not allowed to enter the clan land, because there is the Holy Gu God that they have worshipped for generations.
The local government is also very understanding and supportive, but it’s still a matter of money.
For people like Miao, their biggest advantage is the tourism industry. They also need political achievements. Now that some people come to invest, they can't just push them away.
Everyone says Miao Gu is scary, but they also need money to build roads.
When Mr. Lin's assistant came over, the old clan leader and his companions had already started drawing lots to select Deadpool.
Back then, they couldn't even get out of their mountain area. Now they can be controlled by a businessman?
I heard the assistant say that if he just went out to help a little girl get rid of the Substitute Gu, he would give her a box of gold, which was exactly what they needed. That's why I followed them here.
When the old patriarch left, he heard the promise made by Mr. Lin and looked at him deeply.
"Han boy, from now on you will be our Hei Miao friend. I, an old man, owe you a favor. When you have any problems, you can send someone to find me." After saying that, he got into the car and left with his assistant.
After seeing off the old patriarch, the people arranged by the assistant also came back with the news that they had bribed the Qin family's gardener and the things had been buried.
According to common sense, the moment the child Gu in Miss Lin's body was removed, the mother Gu would sense it. However, the problem was that the mother Gu in the Qin family was not implanted in the body.
This new mother Gu was still placed in the secret room next to the Qin family's underground wine cellar.
So when the mother insect reacted, neither the Qin family nor Master Kugu noticed. It was precisely because of this gap that the Lin family was able to successfully bury the insect egg under the Qin family's gate.
The insect egg was a bit like Cordyceps sinensis. When it was buried deep underground, it began to spit out silk, and the spider-web-like mycelium quickly spread throughout the Qin family's underground.
The Qin family's gardener was the first to discover the mushrooms. They were crystal clear, like ice sculptures, yet glowed a faint blue in the moonlight. Their appearance was so unique that the Qin family's old lady even had a glass landscape planting box built for them and placed it in her bedroom.
These mushrooms were extremely delicate. Once touched by a finger, they would turn into a puff of mist and dissipate into the air. However, they did not realize that the air was filled with floating mycelium.
Living in this kind of environment for a long time, their skin will become very white, almost translucent, and what flows in their blood vessels is no longer blood, but a sticky, fluorescent liquid.
However, these do not affect their normal lives, and they even feel that their physical condition is better than before.
Qin Heyang's body hadn't returned to normal, he was overweight, and the acne marks on his face hadn't completely disappeared. So after getting engaged to Miss Lin, they kept in touch over the phone.
The Lin family also spread false news and searched for a good Chinese medicine master, but they kept it a secret as to who in the family was ill.
Under such circumstances, the contacts between Mr. Lin and Mr. Qin never stopped.
Dad Qin has been in high spirits recently.
The spy he planted in the Lin Group brought news that President Lin seemed to be overwhelmed by "family affairs" and made a low-level mistake when bidding for a Southeast Asian energy project, giving Qin the opportunity to intercept.
Even better, Mr. Lin seemed oblivious to it. He even raised his glass at a business dinner and said to Qin's father with a smile, "Business is like a battlefield. Winning and losing are common."
A super-large uranium deposit with associated rare earth minerals has been discovered in Laos, Southeast Asia, attracting international energy giants. The Qin family initially made their fortune in the pharmaceutical industry, but with the recent rise of Western medicine, their traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions have proven less profitable.
If the Qin family had stuck to their original aspirations and lived a stable life, their downfall wouldn't have been so disastrous.
However, it is difficult to turn around a big ship. After getting used to the grandeur of the great cause, it is difficult to go back to the past. So after joining the Lin family, they naturally did not want to miss out on the huge profits in the mining industry.
In fact, the loophole that Mr. Lin left for them is quite large, and they won’t fall into the trap even if they are slightly startled.
In its bidding documents, the Lin Group "accidentally" mismarked a key parameter: the depth of the uranium-associated rare earth mineral layer.
Lin's technical team "miscalculated" the distribution of the mineral veins and marked the rich mineral area that actually needed to be mined 800 meters underground as a shallow mineable area of 400 meters.
After verification, the Qin family's technical team found that if calculated based on 400 meters, the mining cost would drop by 60% and the profit would double, so they immediately decided to intercept it.
The 400-meter depth is actually a mineral vein fault zone. Once excavated, not only will the ore grade be far lower than expected, but it will also cause groundwater backflow, paralyzing the entire mining area.
The Lin family had their lawyer insert a special clause into the contract: "The mining area's groundwater resources are the sole property of the mining company. If mining results in an environmental accident, the responsible party will be liable for unlimited joint and several compensation."
The Qin family believes that this clause can save environmental protection costs and discharge pollutants directly.
In fact, there is undisclosed radioactive contamination in the mining area. Once mining begins, the Qin family will face investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In order to grab the project, the Qin family used high-leverage financing and even mortgaged core assets.
The Lin family secretly shorted Qin's stock, and after the project started, they joined forces with international media to release negative news that "Laos uranium mine radiation exceeded the standard", causing Qin's stock price to plummet and triggering banks to withdraw loans.
When the Qin family's capital chain was about to break, the Lin family proposed to acquire the Qin family's Laos project assets as a "white knight", and the offer price was only 10% of the original investment.
If the Qin family refuses, they will go bankrupt due to debt default; if they take over, they will completely lose their overseas mining layout and become a second-rate enterprise.